18F-FDG PET/CT is useful for pretreatment assessment of the histopathologic type of thymic epithelial tumors

Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 177-184

  Kim, Ji Young ^a   Kim, Hye Ok ^a   Kim, Jae Seung ^a   Moon, Dae Hyuk ^a   Kim, Yong Hee ^a   Kim, Dong Kwan ^a   Park, Seung II ^a   Park, Young Soo ^a   Ryu, Jin Sook ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

18F fluorodeoxyglucose; PET; Thymic carcinoma; Thymoma; Thymus

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER;

EID: 79952740272     PISSN: 18693474     EISSN: 18693482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13139-010-0036-x     Document Type: Article

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